OotP and shopping

[oyceter]

Went shopping with my sister! Yay! Bought a pair of pretty new jeans and a skirt that can potentially be worn to work (if I ever get a job that is). And I got extremely mad because I saw a copy of OotP sitting innocently in the middle of a bookstore somewhere, and I could have bought it! But I already paid for the copy I reserved and couldn't get today, so I didn't get that one. Argh! I swear, Murphy is god, and he hates me. Anyway, I stood in the middle of the bookstore and got a few pages in.

It looks good! I love how it feels as though no time at all has elapsed between the beginning of this and the end of Goblet. The end of Goblet is still extremely present in the background in Harry's twitchiness.

I realize how silly I must seem, writing my first impression of the first maybe 5 pages of the book! But I have to say, JK Rowling is impressing me more and more with how tight the stories are and how she doesn't seem to be afraid of really dealing with questions of evil and how to live under it. And in many ways, I feel it's much more effective than the high fantasy wars against evil (LotR, Robert Jordan, blah blah) because Harry's just a kid. He lives in my world. And Rowling's got a way of writing that really makes me feel what Harry's feeling.

That is all. Dying to get hands on book tomorrow.

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[angeyja.livejournal.com]

Thanks for the comments!

Harry's just a kid. He lives in my world. And Rowling's got a way of writing that really makes me feel what Harry's feeling.

It's that edgy liminal time when the fogs of grey drift acroos everyone and everywhere and everything you thought you knew. And you're neither fish nor fowl, not grown, not a child. Causality, questions of fate vs free will, the apparent unfairness of things, a sudden growth spurts and clumsiness, the sheer wonkiness of adults, that shiver when your in crush with a girl (or a guy)! The topsy turvy roller coaster of feeling... bliss, anger, craziness, and sometimes melancholy for what's gone.

I think I had trouble with the timing of reading vs real life. Taking Harry in when I'm tossing in a storm of Ben's making was too much too much if that makes any sense. Ben's storminess of the violent but brief variety, I'm enjoying Harry and Hermione and Ron much better.

I'm again liking Birket's thoughts on how we take books in again and carry them along with, and what the reader brings to the text, that weird but wonderful melding.

Wow and good luck on your book quest! :-)

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[oyceter]

Oh, that was lovely.

No such luck on the book quest.. the bookstore says they haven't gotten it in yet. I give up. Obviously the universe does not want me to read this book...

[angeyja.livejournal.com]

Glad to see (up above) that you got it! I finished it in one fell swoopish read Friday night... then up Saturday AM to go with dad and Ben to and airshow in Rhinebeck where we met my sister Kris and her two kids Em and Jim, my brother Steve, his wife Nina and little Sara. Had a picnic lunch, toured the museum (dad was a turbine aerodynamicist so touring came with it's own guide!) and watched the show. Great day although Em and I had to sit with lips sealed about the HP since most everyone else is in midstream.